On May 13, 2010, at 12:29, Rodrigo Montenegro wrote: > I am trying to block the users committing files with non-ASCII characters in > their names during the pre-commit hook script, but when I get the list of > files being committed with "svnlook changed" the filenames are completely > messed up. > > For example, a file named "ação.txt" when committed, has the string "A > trunk/a?\195?\167?\195?\163o1.txt" returned by the "svnlook changed" command.
If you want to see the filenames as proper UTF-8 strings, you need to set the LANG environment variable to the proper value for your system.